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Thursday, January 10, 2013

Google Keyboard Shotcuts

As you may know, Google search has a set of keyboard shortcuts
and regex
that can be used on their search results. Today we will be exploring these
shortcuts, as well as some used by other known Google applications that you are
probably familiar with.

Let’s start with Google search.

1- Logon to Google and run a search

2- Click on the settings button on the results page and
click on “Search Settings”

3- Under “Google Instant predictions” select “Always show
instant results” and then click on Save

4- Back to the results page, hit “Tab” on your keyboard to
initiate the shortcuts

Search Result Keyboard Shortcuts

Tab - Goes to the first result

Up/Down - Goes up or down in the result list

Right - Shows instant preview

Enter - Opens the select result

Ctrl+Enter - Opens the select result in a new tab

Shift+Enter - Opens the select result in a new window

Now Google+

1- Open Google+ and click on an empty white space

2- Press “Shift+?” on your keyboard to show a list of
keyboard shortcuts

Google+ Keyboard Shortcuts

This page

j - Next post

k - Previous post

o - Expand/collapse current post

n - Next comment on current post

p - Previous comment on current post

r - Comment on current post

Global

/ - Search

? - Open shortcut help

@ - Send feedback

Left - List of pages (Enter opens selected page)

Right - Page content

And finally Gmail

1- Open Gmail and click on an empty white space

2- Press “Shift+?” on your keyboard to show a list of
keyboard shortcuts

3- You may need to enable the additional shortcuts (bottom half of the page) by clicking on "Enable"